ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,333, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tris Pharma Inc. (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

"Modified release drug powder composition comprising gastro-retentive raft forming systems having trigger pulse drug release" was invented by Paras Rameshlal Jain (Dayton, N.J.) and Sachin Vasant Chaudhari (Marc Drive, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orally administrable drug powder composition which forms a gastro-retentive RAFT having at least two trigger pulses is provided. The composition contains, at a minimum, (a) at least one drug in an immediate release pulse release form; (b) at least one drug in a delayed trigger release form; (c) a...